resetting tty1

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 03 May 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
> How would restarting X fix a problem with the console?
>
> At any rate, usually what I do is just kill the process that owns the tty
> that is frozen. ?I'm not sure what kind of system Chang is using, but on
> my systems the VC's are run with mingetty, not getty.

Well, in my case it usually happens under KDE and with my xterms.

I realized after I posed that he was talking tty1